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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by altacc on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:52AM (#38344987)
I had hoped nobody read cyberpunk books and thought that was a description of utopia but consistently we see billionaires trying to act out the sci-fi novels from their youth or impose dystopian world views from Ayn Rand.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by thom on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:00AM (#38345100)
https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by sumitkumar on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:20AM (#38345283)
Reverse psychology? Look where you want to go and not at what you want to avoid? I think it is important where humanity collectively points its cognitive torch because that's where it is going to go.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by thworp on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:17AM (#38345870)
Eh, so far they have nothing on the people trying to act out utopias in the 20th century. I will wake up when the billionaire Zeitgeist goes past resource allocation and into "cleanse the undesirables".
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by hef19898 on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:36AM (#38346012)
Maybe waking up before that would be wise.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by FrustratedMonky on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:47AM (#38346679)
I think a lot of people have hit the snooze button 2 or 3 times at this point.

Rolling over, covering head with blanket. 'Surely the dystopian future, rich cleansing the world, is still a few decades away, just need a little more sleepy time'.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by Applejinx on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:39AM (#38346594)
Which billionaire? Looks like you're awake enough to type, and rightly so, as we're way past that point, and it's obvious even to ordinary people.

Interesting to note how much of this is driven by individual billionaire humans being hung up on stuff like ketamine. I'm given to understand numerous high-ranking Nazis were hung up on amphetamines. Humans like to try and make themselves into deities, by basically hitting themselves in the brain with rocks.

Doesn't end well.

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